Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-02-26

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~, eaas 10 New York MI vssS . srx
delivered his famous lecture On "Ohs,'
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lecturer and ths lecture;
Jones took immcusalv With nj. and,
enoe from the start. And. In faot. M,
the Arst sentence or two. n m main -
most Of the listeners that h.rc n. !
genuine drolly forcible bumorist. Jooss
10 tall. slender man OF IS. perhsns
we'll poised, almost graceful. Win am .
not toe long for good setisnlst,on ans
sharply, well-knit hands. His face h
narrow, with sharply defined featurss
striking and picturesque; that of :
naturally clever man, with the vit and
humor that lie Ut the bottom of the mn !.
trained Georgisn's success dancing and
sparkling In his black eyes, He bas the
nfe and ease of the Southern stumn
speaker. and his words smsck strouelv
OF the rolling O's and soft dravis Of
southern DIALECT. His ease and foroe
strike ono most, however, and the i'm.
preston grows fast that in the rude elo.
quence OF the camp meeting exhortcr =
comedian OF no mean order Wa lost "a
the stage.
Character, tho lecturer began by SAY.
ing, was IN arch OF stones-love, faith,
courage, patience, brothers kindness.
eemPeFAnce, charity and tho rest-apd
on this skeleton Of discourse he hung
1t random ell the lively ssllies about
men and things that seemed TO come
veil polished. without effort Of will
1t was the only way he could talk
effectively. he said. This Ii how he
went on:
/ want to die the day before have 10
stop saying things just ~ feel them
and Whenever they come. Some people
~ that I'm al right; 1t 10 only my
way. Why, sir, the way 10 the only
thing I've got . patent right on. hurt
peoples feelings, they 60 on. And here's
bonton sister turning up her pretty
nose at my improprieties. Tho devil's
got mortgage on that nose and some
day he'll forecl0se 1t, and then he'll get
the whole gal along with 1t too.
There arc four Glasses Of men the
Lord can't do anything with--the
stingy. the fools, the lazy men and the
towards. God loves q "gsme" man.
A fool 10 round and slick, and even the
Lord can't handle him. / bad rather
know one thing we'll than be q philoso.
pher. IT, the essence OF the GOSPEL
that We need. Here's the Episcopal
clergy man-l00k Ut him-pegg!DR away
st Apostolic Succession, telling people
where they came from. He had better
be telling them where they're going.
For half Of his congregation 10 on the
way to hell. And here's the Presby-
terrain minister, hammeripg ct Final
PersoverAnoe-and half OF bis conRre.
cation have nothing worth persevering
In. And the Baptist takes all his time
mp shouting "Water, water" Why.
half the crowd are going TO where they
can't get drop.
I want 70 say here l don't believe
much In breeds. A creed 10 nothing
but the skin Of truth stuffed with saw.
dust and shot Some people are fools
enough to think that because 1t 10 called
the Apostles creed that the Apot ties
wrote It. Christ never wrote o creed.
Why I'm good enough to write . creed
myself, - good - any dry bones thsol.
oyer.
Temperance 10 one Of the chief stones
OF character. Any fool knows that he
oughtn't drink whisky. Sam Small
says that he spent $4,000 ON his nose,
and only got II q pale pink. don't
know what II would have cost him 70
paint 1t blood red.
The most amusing character to me IL
ono OF these dignified, solemn men. II
used to DO afraid Of them when I was
. boy. thought one OF these old Doc
tors Of Divinity who used to come
around and look so solemn would call
hro down from heaven, or hand me
over to the devil II he wanted TO. Now
I'm not afraid Of them. There's very
little in them. Why you hear dieni.
lied old Doctor OF Divinity get up In
the pulpit-about 100 miles away from
the congregation-and be says In . big
voice: 'O!thou most perfect Of oil beings
the divine souic e and beginning OF
all thlngs"-and 70 on and 30 on. Why,
1t makes me think Of one OF you going
down TO dry goods store and saying
TO the proprietor In the same big voice:
o! thou greatest of all dry goods mer.
chants, In New York, I want to get .
pair Of divinely oolored hose for my
wife," Great laughter.
As soon ~ die I'll be ~ digniHed
% any OF you. The more diRnified .
fellow 10, think, the higher he is to
Ocihk uoeu. IRIS nlnete6nth century
proprtety IL like bonnet our sisters get
At the millinery store, wrapped ard
twisted and tortured out Of shape, fits
your 9st about ~ we'll IS your head
Propriety, ! think, IL merely doing
what 10 manly and straight and right.
These white nack-tie fellows In al
oandbox remind me OF an engine saw
In . rour dhouse at Nashville. 1t WAS
.pick and span white and clean, hadn' t
been used for six months. And next
10 1t WAS an engine, greasy, smeAred
with dust and dirt, that had Just
pulled . train Of forty loaded cars up
rom Chattanooga Couple one OIL
.hese white necktie men to forty or
ifty old sinners, put him on the road
Ind he'll be dusty and dirty, too.
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